Sport & Exercise Research Group Monthly Research Seminar (First Wednesday of each month) Sport and homophobia in France: Twenty years of research - Featuring Professor Philippe Liotard From 1997 (Eurogames in Paris) to 2018 (Gay Games in Paris), LGBT's sport spread in two directions. On the one hand, an associative sports network has developed which... | Read on »

Public Keynote Lecture by Prof. Wendy Bracewell School of Slavonic and East European Studies University College London   Prof. Wendy Bracewell of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, is to deliver a public lecture entitled ‘Travellers, travellees, and travelling texts: Eastern Europe and the Republic of Letters’ at NUI Galway... | Read on »

Students in MA Medieval Studies will be presenting their dissertation projects for comment and feedback in Room 1001 "The Bridge" on Tuesday, May 9th 10-12pm. All welcome!

Finding Lady Gregory: Teaching, Research and Performance Practice in Global Contexts A joint talk by Moore Visiting Fellows: Dr Emer O’Toole (Concordia) and Dr Anna Pilz (UCC), chaired by Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance   Dr Anna Pilz lectures on Irish and English literature in the School of English at... | Read on »

By Dr. Marion Krauthaker In this seminar, Marion will present the early findings of an ongoing pedagogical research project on Modern Foreign Languages. Looking back at the roots of MFL teaching in the UK has enabled me to retrace its original mission and to better pinpoint the disconnections between its founding values, its current perception and... | Read on »

#50isEnough:  Israeli Civil Society Confronts the Occupation The Occupation is now 50 years old and the current political leadership in Israel seems intent on silencing Israelis who want to see it end. Indeed, the debate over the Occupation – and the damage it is doing to both Palestinian society and Israeli democracy – has been... | Read on »

"Concepts of degeneration came to constitute one of the foremost expressions of state power as Ireland transitioned to a fully independent state with its own constitution between 1922 and 1937. During the Free State period, the framework of degeneration was profoundly manifest in the state’s framing and treatment of issues of moral and social hygiene,... | Read on »

PI: Dr Miriam Haughton, O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance Supported by: School of Humanities Research Incentivisation Scheme, the O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance, and Gender ARC. Registration: This is a free event but places are limited. To reserve a place, please email ‘miriam.haughton@nuigalway.ie’ by 5pm Thursday 18 May. Research topics under... | Read on »

World Literature and the Short Story in the 21st Century ‘Capitalism-in-Crisis and Narrating the World in Rana Dasgupta’s Tokyo Cancelled’ Dr Treasa De Loughry (Maynooth University)    

Room AM205, Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway  14.00-15.30: Outline of roundtable workshop Maureen O’Sullivan (School of Law) ‘Patents, morality, biotech inventions and a role for participatory democracy’ – short presentation followed by discussion Su-Ming Khoo (School of Political Science and Sociology) ‘Bioethics, public ethics and collective capabilities’ Oliver Feeney (UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA) ‘Electronic health... | Read on »

UNESCO Bioethics Ireland, COBRA in conjunction with the NUI Galway Research Ethics Committee, NUIG Humanitarian work and disaster responses are increasingly encouraged to be evidence-based. For this and other reasons, more research and other evidence-generation activities are being conducted in disaster and humanitarian settings. This has led to attention to the ethical issues in such research, and how... | Read on »

Joseph Twist (Galway/Limerick) - Joseph is interested in the intersection of philosophy, religion and literature. His current research focuses on the interaction between mystical and postmodern thought in the work of Zafer Şenocak, SAID, Feridun Zaimoglu and Navid Kermani (all contemporary German authors of varying Muslim backgrounds). He is particularly interested in the non-identitarian spirituality... | Read on »

Professor Catherine Manathunga, Victoria University, Melbourne and Moore Institute Fellow Irish universities such as Trinity College Dublin, the three Queen’s Colleges of Cork, Galway and Belfast and the Catholic University of Ireland in Dublin served as key models for the development of early Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand universities.  They also contributed many academics to... | Read on »